USA forced to relase Iranian hostages
The United States Government was exposed making fraudulent claims about Iranian interference in Iraq, when it was itself guilty of violating Iraq's sovereignty and hostage-taking.
Following a raid on a SCIRI compound, without the Iraqi Government's approval, the United States announced that it had captured senior Iranian military officials who were "meddling" in Iraq. The two senior Iranian military officials were in fact diplomats and thus had diplomatic immunity so could not be detained by the United States. Moreover far from meddling in Iraq, they were official State guests; personally invited over by President Talibani.
President Talbani furiously denounced the hostage-taking and demanded his guest immediate and unconditional release. The United States has been forced to concede that the abductions were illegal and has stated that the Iranian diplomats have been released, which is yet to be confirmed.
2 comments:
Did they not know that they were presidential guests?
It's backfired because now like you said its obvious that they weren't meddling.
I assume not, however it is hard to see that they would not, they would have been told when they abducted them.
I agree it has backfired, however the situation is now so beyond their control, they can do little more than these PR stunts.
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